The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-02
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There are 60, 900 women farmers in
Ireland.
They call them horse-cars in Boston;
never street-cars.
1.-The tree of death" is what the Buff
falo Ezpress calls the telegraph pole.
There is Home for Incorporate
Women" in Boston, which has forty
one inmates.
The best modern siege guns cost $97,-
600, and it costs 5000 to shoot one of
them only once.
Five thousand bodies, on an average,
are taken to the morgue in New York
city every year.
Prince Henry of Battenberg writes a
large portion of Queen Victoria's Ger
man correspondence.
The soldiers at Boise City, Idaho,
have organized minstrel company
and will give an exhibition.
Tracheotomy has been attempted on
horses in England to cure them OF
roaring, and tried with success.
The Empress Eugene is said to be
contemplating a tour through the
United States, travelling incognito.
"a lOukiSC HI II lOIIod say nO Ado NV
been able to find verified instance
of an alligator injuring man or child.
A lawsuit over 81 side-saddle set
3led recently in Massachusetts, court
cost the parties interested 1896 each.
Scott Bar, California, has the taliest
postmaster in the United States. He
stands over seven feet in his stockings
and weighs 280 pounds.
Over ten thousand people make a
living at the rag business in New York
city. The Italians engaged in the busi-
ness number two thousand.
Thirty-three new hotels are to be
erected in Los Angeles county, Cali
fornia, this season. They will cost
from $50, 600 to $50, 900 each.
At Mercer, Cal, one day recently,
G. W. Turner, a horse-thief, was ar
raigned, sentenced, and sent to the
penitentiary inside of four hours.
Gardener Pfister, of the White House,
is very proud of his canaries, which
are in their prime, and of which he
has the largest collection in the coun-
try.
King Theebaws remarkable collec-
tion of Oriental MSS-a collection
handed down to him as an heirloom
has been secured for the India Office in
London.
George R. Sims, the English, play
wright and story-writer, has received
nearly 100000 from his plays pro-
duced in the United States during the
past five years.
The California Legislature has voted
$4,000 for the Improvement of the
Yosemite valley. New trails will be
opened and the mountain streams
stocked with fish.
One of the dynamite shells recently
made for the United States navy will
kill, it is thought, a thousand men,
blow up man-of-war, or destroy q
government building.
A fund is being raised in Richmond,
Va, for the perpetual establishment
of the grave of little Joe" Davis, soT
of JEFF Davis, who died in that city
during the rebellion.
Kwoh Hao, the young Emperor O
China, who has been declared SO
age" at sixteen, has assumed the full
reins of government. His. name sig
mites Continuation of Glory"
A constable near Cedartown, Ga.
made levy recently, which read a
follows: II hav this day levied OIL
one Black COW, this piece Having
Thread"
Mr. Sol Smith Russell is going t.
settle in Minneapolis with his father
in-law. Mr.. William T. Adams. TIL,
latter, best known as ''Oliver Optic,
is now nearly IS years old, and has be
gun to lose health.
A New York man who attended
game of base ball nearly met his death
BY stray ball carroming on his head
He sued for $4,000 damages, but the
court decided that people who attend
baseball games must take their chances
DIR. Cornelius A. Herr, who is spO
ken of as the 'discoverer of Genera
Boulanger," is well remembered in
San Francisco, but his former ac
quaintances there do not speak of him
In so complimentary terms as do hi.
present friends in France.
A remarkably fine otter Skin
reached Portland, Oregon. from
have belonged to an old otter, as il
~ md5 4Qltc gray dIOuuu -slC AlOSO ohS
down the belly, which fact added tt
its value, which was 1925.
W. ID. Washburn of Minneapolis il
the greatest of American millers. H,
has one mill that turns out five thou
sand barrels of flour day, and is in
terested in others whose output il
enormous. There is probably no maj
living who is SO largely interested il
-four.
England is the only country in Eu
rope where the military forces are re
eruited by voluntary enlistment
Therefore her industries benefit enor
mously by the comparatively small
number of young men withdrawn
from them and saddled upon the ma
tional earnings.
A proclamation recently issued BY
the viceroy of a Chinese province
orders all the mandarins and peopl,
under them to beat their gongs ant
fire guns and crackers to help tn
moon and prevent it from being swal
lowed up by the heavenly monster ol
the occasion of the eclipse.
Colonel w. H. Martin, who will
succeed Senator-elect Reagan in tn
mouse, Is dS UaIl anu Cnln as rail-
He wears long hair and has tuft OIL
his chin and moustache. His voice i
loud and his gestures are awkward
His trousers never fit him and h
wears butternut-colored shirt.
A Russian peasant employed as 1
watchman on an estate at Odess,
aroused the ill-feeling of Jews b,
impounding their stray cattle. Th
Jews decoyed him into barn, wher
they immersed their victim severa
times in caldron of boiling water
and then flung him out into a neigh
boring field. The unfortunate peas
ant fingered three days in grea
agony, and then died.
A story is told in art circles of
young American painter who returne'
from course of European stud,
with not cent in his pocket. Hi
ambition was equal to the situation
and he hired a magnificent studio
filled it with choice stuff and bric-a
brac, and proceeded to take fashion
able pupils of the gentler sex, havin,
borrowed his equipments from a fash